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...them. As the name suggests, Archaea may be similar to the very first organisms that populated the earth billions of years ago. The implication: life on our planet may first have arisen, not in a warm tidal pool as Darwin and others theorized, but under conditions of sulfurous, searing heat...
...bottom of the food chain were microbes that, scientists soon realized, were thriving on nothing more than heat and poison. "They make a living," explains John Baross, of the University of Washington's School of Oceanography, "by oxidizing sulfide, methane, iron and other metals." After years of digging into the sediments in and around vents, Baross discovered that these microbes have adapted to a wide variety of thermal conditions, from room temperature to well above boiling...
...thrown over for Amanda Marsh. (Marsh and Michel are said to be dating, though not engaged.) This winter, along with a new edition of The Bachelor, ABC will air The Bachelorette and has chosen Rehn, a physical therapist and dancer for the Miami Heat, to choose one guy from a smorgasbord of 25. ABC says it is hoping the series will help examine gender roles. Asked if a woman dating multiple men will be as palatable to the public as a man in the same position, network president Susan Lyne replied that the series "will force...
...tempted both by self-destruction and by indeterminate narrative. These traits are shared by Spanish writer-director Julio Medem, and you can read his movie tragically or happily. But these people are fools for heedless love and, perhaps, needless complication, and you can't help responding to the heat of their passion...
...have come under plenty of criticism for their failure to prevent 9/11. Now, it seems, it's the turn of the National Security Agency (NSA). The agency, whose job is to protect U.S. government information and ferret out foreign secrets, is already taking heat for being slow to analyze two cryptic messages it intercepted last Sept. 10, warning that something big was going to happen the next day. Now a scathing classified report issued by the House Intelligence Committee has concluded that the agency is badly mismanaged, congressional sources tell TIME, and that resulted in its failing "to provide tactical...